Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...portrait of the Reverend Mr. Charles Brookes, which was discovered in an old store in Boston, has been presented by John Albree of Boston to the Committee on Iconography of the School of Education headed by C. S. Thomas...
...John Moody, President of Moody's Investment Service, last week predicted that the next few years would see "the greatest boom in the history of this country." He foresaw the greatest advance in commodity prices since 1921, a large increase in per capita consumption of leading products, and a redistribution of prosperity which would include the small merchant and manufacturer as well as the large corporation...
...beginning of the Petroleum Institute sessions there was talk of choosing for president a famed person outside the industry. General John Pershing, Charles Evans Hughes and President Coolidge were mentioned for the position. It was finally concluded, however, that in the present unsettled condition of the industry it would be better to forego the glory of a great name and select a man well acquainted with petroleum problems. So Edwin Benjamin Reeser, of Oklahoma, president of the Barnsdall Corp., was elected.* Mr. Reeser lives in Tulsa; whenever he visits his Manhattan offices he shakes the hand of every member...
...John Smith, U. S. citizen, decides that he may as well collect some of the easy profits available on Wall St.'s bull market. From the bank he draws his life savings of $15,000. A study of margins shows him that with this $15,000 and a friendly broker he can purchase $150,000 worth of stocks. From a study of market news he picks any five stocks which seem to be favorites of the bull operators. For example: Curtiss Aero, International Harvester, Montgomery Ward, Radio, Victor. So Speculator Smith speculates in 100 shares of each of these...
...week in Manhattan the Schubert Memorial gave its first concert, presented Violinist Sadah Shuchari, 20 (onetime Sadie Schwartz) and Pianist Muriel Kerr, 17, both pupils of the Juilliard Foundation. External circumstances favored them. They had 80 members of the Philharmonic-Symphony to play with, Willem Mengelberg to conduct, Prof. John Erskine (also of the Juilliard school) to introduce them. They had many and important listeners, including leading critics. They had marked talent, both of them-but for Brahms' violin concerto, for Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto it was not enough. Nor did the leading critics appear to remember...